Government, Tajani: "If Conte resigns, word to Mattarella". Bettini: "The vote? Misfortune, not coup"

• Government, Iv: "We need a political solution of breadth".

  Conte seeks new majority

• The Senate votes for confidence in the government with 156 votes in favor, 140 against and 16 abstentions

• Renzi: "An incomprehensible crisis? No, we need a stronger government"

• The Chamber votes confidence in Conte with 321 votes in favor, 259 against and 27 abstentions

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January 23, 2021

The trial by fire for the Conte II government could be postponed for a few hours.

The moment of truth was expected on Wednesday, with the report on the state of the administration of justice that Minister Alfonso Bonafede would have held in the Chamber and, it was thought, immediately afterwards in the Senate.

It is in Palazzo Madama, in fact, that the majority has smaller numbers and it is there that serious problems could have come.

At the last vote of confidence, the majority stopped at 156 votes, 5 less than the absolute majority and with the abstention of Italia Viva, which has already made it known that it wants to vote against the minister's report.

According to parliamentary sources, the institutional commitments of the owner of the department in via Arenula would be at the basis of the postponement, but we will have to wait for the group leader of Palazzo Madama scheduled for Tuesday to find out what the calendar of works will be.

Meanwhile, the search for the "responsible" or "willing", whatever you prefer, continues with great difficulty and, with every passing hour, the hypothesis of elections is becoming more and more concrete.

For the Democratic Party, by now, the vote is the only alternative to a new Conte government.

Today, the weaver of agreements within the majority for the Democratic Party, Goffredo Bettini, has returned to invoke those pro-European, moderate and liberal forces.

Otherwise, explains Bettini, "the vote would be a disaster, but certainly not a coup".

An appeal addressed above all to the parliamentarians of Forza Italia.

A reconstruction that does not like the vice president of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, who invites us to stop with what he considers false, underlining that without Forza Italia the center-right does not win.

What Tajani adds, however, seems to leave openings for future collaborations.

Tajani: "If Conte resigns, the word passes to Mattarella

" A Conte ter government does not tempt anyone "and if" the prime minister resigns, the floor passes to the Head of State, in whom we have the utmost confidence "said the vice president of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, guest of Sabato24 on RaiNews.

"The institutional executive is not on the table"

"The Ursula majority cannot be transformed into propaganda".

adds Tajani, underlining how "institutional government is a problem that no one has put on the table".

"We told the head of state that we have faith in him and his wisdom, he is the guarantor of national unity. We have entrusted ourselves to the head of state and we have said that this majority does not have the numbers to govern the country".

Gasparri: ridiculous appeals to FI, they resign

"It is becoming almost fun to read the nonsense pronounced by numerous leftists, who, overwhelmed by the failure of the PD, the grillini and their agreement under the guidance of the incapable Conte, continue to renew the appeals to Forza Italia, who delude themselves that they can detach themselves from the center-right to be able to form a complement troop that will allow the eternal losers to remain in government despite having no democratic legitimacy. The Bettinis and the Counts are worse than the virus. They are a disease of Italian politics. . They are permanently committed to altering the fundamental rules of voting ".

This was declared by the senator of Forza Italia Maurizio Gasparri who added: "The center-right will not divide as the Bettinis and the failed leftists and Grillismo wish. They can pick up some traitors, practice 'tobacco', but this won't get them far. tried to float with these parliamentary expedients then suffered bitter defeats. They may also look for some hired traitors, they have already found some, and they will confirm themselves as enemies of democracy doomed to failure. Forza Italia is the lighthouse and locomotive of the center-right, which Berlusconi wanted and They resign themselves. We will go to the government of a country that - concludes Gasparri - these incapable ones are leaving even without vaccines ".

"Today the situation is very difficult, it must be monitored moment by moment, I do not have the solution. Navigating in this situation is very difficult. But I know what, as Pd, we are obliged to do: we had little confidence, not even with the numbers of the absolute majority in the Senate, and yet we did. The first thing is to give a signal to the Italians on one point: we do not have the choice but the obligation to govern in these hours with respect to the pressing needs of the country ".

Goffredo Bettini said this when speaking at the assembly of the Democratic Party of the province of Rome.

"But the truth must also be told: if with this vote of confidence we can face the emergency, it is unthinkable with these numbers to conclude the legislature and make the legislature pact that we wanted to make before the crisis, nor can we make the necessary arrangements of the government, which need a larger majority ".

"We just have to try in the next few hours to build a political group within Parliament that is not an empty vessel of ideas to bring together defectors but that is something that politically exists and is very strong, because some forces are prisoners of the other camp "added the leader of the Democratic Party.

"I read Brunetta about Europe and the Recovery fund. It must be a political operation" with "all the forces of good will who believe in Europe, who do not want to be under the heel of Salvini and Meloni but should be the first nucleus of a 'moderate, liberal area ".

Thus "the forces of the right would be isolated".

 "The crisis is incomprehensible but not from Renzi's political plan. Renzi's real strategy has been from the beginning to reduce the Democratic Party to 6% like the French socialists and do Macron. it worked, this is the drama, that the space he imagined did not exist "said Bettini.

"Calenda, Renzi and Bonino potentially have an area of ​​10% and break the boxes, this is the point. Renzi has seen his political crisis and has broken for this, consistent with his basic, failed approach to reopen games, having more protagonism, breaking a functional scheme also for the future between Pd, M5s and Leu ".

"Renzi wanted to cause a fracture and entered into a ridiculous contradiction. I told him personally, you made a mess, you broke a coherent path and then you said call us. But what seriousness, what coherence does a policy of this kind have? ", emphasized Bettini.

"You can say to Renzi 'we joked, okay, let's reopen the dialogue'. For how he behaved also to public opinion I don't know what credibility he could have. Politics does not exclude any verification but I think it is a wrong path. If Renzi were decisive, it would put us in even more trouble because it would cause the same fibrillation in two weeks. Unfortunately Renzi is a guarantee of political instability "concluded the Pd exponent.

"Having opened a crisis in the dark, due to the stubborn will of Italia Viva, is rightly worrying Italians and those who look at Italy from abroad. Citizens and businesses are asking to be protected from the economic crisis and the spread of Covid 19 and instead politics is kept in check by those who think they can take advantage of part of the fibrillation and controversy. The government is fully legitimized by the vote of confidence of the House and Senate, but it is necessary to consolidate its parliamentary base and above all to rapidly approve the draft Recovery plan in Parliament also in the light of the contributions of the social partners. The time of sterile controversies and tactical positioning is over: Italy needs to govern this difficult and complex phase in order to get out of this crisis stronger, greener and fairer ".

This was stated by the group leader of Liberi e Uguali in the Chamber, Federico Fornaro.